Carlos Saura
Date of Birth: 04 Jan 1932
Country: Spain
Biography: Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. His films have won many international awards.
Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Actor), 47 (Director), 38 (Writer)
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70 critics and filmmakers discuss cinema from the age old conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. From 1998 to 2007, Kleber Mendonça Filho has collected points of view about this relationship in Brazil, USA and Europe, using his personal experience as both filmmaker and critic. Crítico opens a window to an art which is more and more judged by the industry and which struggles to remain human in the way it is realized and observed. (imdb)
Follows late screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, as he researches the painter Goya in a trip filled with culture, cinema, emotion, painting and Spain. (imdb)
A new documentary by Carlos Saura on the origin of art and its relationship with the most avant-garde tendencies. Seen from the Aragonese moviemaker’s personal and peculiar point of view, the movie portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas, from the first graphic revolutions of the prehistoric caves to the most cutting-edge expressions of urban art. (filmaffinity.com)
In 1947, the Franco regime opened the first film school in Spain. The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema.